Some Of the Fantastic Quotes From The MSCL Scripts
"School is a battlefield for your heart. So when Rayanne Graff told me my hair was holding me back, I had to listen. 'Cause she wasn't just talking about my hair. She was talking about my life." -- Angela
"I cannot bring myself to eat a well-balanced meal in front of my mother. It just means too much to her. I mean, if you stop to think about, like, chewing -- what it really is? -- how people just do it, like, in public." -- Angela
"My dad thinks every person in the world is having more fun than him. Which could be true." -- Angela
"We'll always be able to spot you in a crowd." -- Patty, on Angela's new hair colour
"Lately, I can't even look at my mother without wanting to stab her repeatedly." -- Angela
"I'm starting to like Anne Frank." "Is she a sophomore, too?" "No, she's dead." "Oh." -- Angela and Graham
"My dad and I used to be pretty tight. The sad truth is, my breasts have come between us." -- Angela
"God, Chelsea Clinton. Will you look at this? No freedom, no privacy, constant surveillance, Secret Service men... That's what we need." -- Patty, to Graham
"You wanna have sex with him." "Who?" "Who? Jordan. Catalano. Come on, I'm not gonna tell anyone, just admit it." "Well, either sex or a conversation. Ideally both." -- Rayanne and Angela
"My parents keep asking how school was. It's like saying, 'How was that drive-by shooting?' You don't care how it was, you're lucky to get out alive." -- Angela
"How could Anne Frank be lucky?" "I don't know. 'Cause she was stuck in an attic for three years with this guy she really liked?" -- Ms. Mayhew and Angela
"It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you? And, I mean, this whole thing with yearbook -- it's like, everybody's in this big hurry to make this book, to supposedly remember what happened. Because if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a really upsetting book." -- Angela, to Ms. Mayhew
"Seeing a teacher's actual lunch is, like, so depressing. Not to mention, her bra strap." -- Angela
"This doesn't seem like a Friday." "It's Thursday." "Oh. Are you sure?" "Yesterday was Wednesday, so..." "Oh... Right." "So, that's how I know." -- Jordan and Angela's first conversation
Patty: "I find Rickie a little confusing." Angela: "Okay, so maybe he's bi. Who cares? His cousin can still drive." Patty: "What? He's what? Do you hear these terms she's throwing around? Bi?" Danielle: "It means bisexual." Graham: "He's bisexual?" Patty: "How can he be bi-anything? He's a child, he's obviously very confused." Angela: "No, he's not confused." Patty: "He wears eyeliner." Graham: "He does? He wears eyeliner?" Angela: "I thought you were on my side." Graham: "I'm not on anyone's side." Patty: "Graham. Grow up. Choose a side." -- A nice Chase family conversation
Rickie: "If you were about to do it, okay, what would you want the other person to say, like, right before." Rayanne: "`This won't take long.'" Rickie: "No, seriously." Rayanne: "`Do I know you?'" Rickie: "No, like, for real. Like, romantic." Angela: "`You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you.'" Rayanne: "`It hurts to look at you?'" Rickie: "How'd you think of that?" Rayanne: "Where would it hurt?" -- Rickie, Rayanne, and Angela
"See, it's this diary of her life. These Nazis were gonna kill her, so whatever she'd been like with her friends or her teachers -- that was over. She was hiding. But in this other way she wasn't. She, like, stopped hiding. She was free. -- Angela, to the cop
"I bet people can actually die of embarrassment. I bet it's been medically proven." -- Angela, to Rayanne
"Everybody know there's, like, 50 guns at school at any given moment. And the fact that they haven't gone off before shows you what a totally safe place this is." -- Rayanne
"When I was 12, my mother gave me my sex talk. I'm not sure either of us has ever recovered." -- Angela
"It's amazing the things you notice. Like the corner of his collar that was coming undone, like he was from a poor family and couldn't afford new shirts. That's all I could see. The whole world was that unravelled piece of fabric. It's such a lie that you should do what's in your heart. If we all did what was in our hearts, the world would come to a halt." -- Angela, on Jordan
"Let's ignore Angela. She can't help herself. She's the product of a two parent household." -- Rayanne
"A potential slut. Now where do people get that kind of idea about me?" "Research." -- Rayanne and Rickie
"Okay, see, the Egyptians? They wore eyeliner to ward off evil spirits. They believed that if they outlined their eyes that the good spirits would spot them easier. I read it in a book. So that's why I tried it -- the eyeliner, I mean." "So, you believe in, like, evil spirits?" "Oh, no. I'm Catholic. Basically, I just like how it looks." "Oh, okay. That kinda makes sense I guess." -- Rickie and Brian
"Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth -- that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me." -- Angela
"Maybe teachers have a hidden life, where they're actually, like, human. Where they have, I don't know, dignity. Or maybe not." -- Angela
"This will be completely anonymous." "Just how I like sex." -- Vic and Rayanne
"A Fable" Once upon a time there lived a girl. She slept in a lovely little cottage made of gingerbread and candy. She was always asleep. One morning she woke up and the candy had mould on it. Her father blew her a kiss and the house fell down. She realised she was lost. She found herself walking down a crowded street, but the people were made of paper, like paper dolls. She blew everyone a kiss goodbye and watched as they blew away. -- written by Angela
"Field trips are so intense. It's like everybody's been let out of their cages or something, and we're all roaming around." -- Angela
"Pre-menopause? Is that like pre-death?" -- Patty to Camille
"This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do." -- Angela
"Why is dad playing catch with Brian Krakow?" "I guess if you live with three women, that would make any man desperate." -- Angela and Patty
"If Dad did die, who'd give me away?" "What?" "At my wedding." "You're so weird." "Why?" "'Cause who's gonna marry you?" -- Danielle and Angela
"There are so many different ways to be connected to people. There are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there's not even a word for it. There's the people who you've known forever who know you in this way that other people can't because they've seen you change. They've let you change." -- Angela
"Refrigerators are so revealing. I can look in this refrigerator and know, like, everything about your family." -- Rayanne, to Angela
"Who's into the mustard?" "My dad." "Well, you know what that's about. Sex. I mean, all you really need to survive is mild yellow. All this other stuff is purely recreational." -- Rayanne and Angela
"I became yearbook photographer because I liked the idea that I could sort of watch life without having to be part of it. But when you're yearbook photographer, you're, like, never in the picture." -- Brian
"Let's say you're deciding between two particular patterns, and one of them you definitely know that you really like. And the other one is nice wallpaper and all, but you're not sure if it's really..." "For you." "Exactly. But the really great wallpaper, let's say, is like totally out of your price range. So, do you take the other wallpaper, even though you don't, let's say, desire it that much? Or do you wait until the really great wallpaper is cheaper." "Well, I guess it depends on how badly you need wallpaper." "I would say pretty badly." -- Brian and Graham
"It's just so weird, when you've, like, chosen your wallpaper and you think you're pretty happy with it, but every time you pass by the other wallpaper, you know, the one you sort of like more?" "Brian, we're not talking about wallpaper here, are we?" -- Brian and Graham
"How ironic can you get without, like, puking?" -- Brian, after Angela calls him heartless
"Why are you like this?" "Like what?" "Like how you are." "How am I?" -- Jordan and Angela
"I'm transferring out." "No, don't. Then we won't be in the same English class." "So, you never even go to English!" "Well, in case I ever do." -- Rickie and Rayanne
"So I tried to be invisible. It's surprisingly possible. You just sit in the back and keep quiet and let the boys shout out the answers, which they will, even if they're wrong. Boys are less afraid of being wrong." -- Angela
"There's something about Sunday night that really makes you want to kill yourself." -- Angela
"You have the option of insanity. I do not. And that makes me crazy!" -- Brian, to Angela
"You finish up whatever it is you're nibbling on in there, and don't leave a mess for me to clean up." -- Patty, to Angela, unaware that Angela's midnight snack is actually Jordan
"It was exactly like when I was waiting to get my flu shot. Only I didn't even get a magazine to read." -- Angela, on waiting with Jordan for their turn to have sex
"Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits into this empty place in your heart." -- Angela
"Well, I love you, too. Please... shut up!" "I will. So, you wanna make love? I mean, you know, since we're up." "Well, speak for yourself." "Well, just close your eyes and be very, very brave." -- Graham and Patty
"Listen, when she starts singing, you can't talk. But, like, afterwards? Applaud, but not too much, but, like, sincerely." "You're telling me how to applaud." "Oh, shut up, shut up. I'm sorry, I'm a little on edge. I gotta pray now." -- Rickie and Brian
"Do we have to keep talking about religion? It's Christmas." -- Danielle, to Patty and Graham
"Making depressed people talk to someone like you -- couldn't that, like, I don't know, push them over the edge?" -- Rayanne, to Sharon
"You will not believe what Bernice and Bob Krakow did." "Oh, I know. But just that once, right? To make Brian?" -- Patty and Graham
